Man leads police on 10-mile, 15-minute chase

Authorities respond to reports of shots being fired

UPDATED 9:13 PM EDT Apr 21, 2013

COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio -

Police stopped a man at gunpoint after he led officers on a 10-mile chase that lasted about 15 minutes in Colerain Township.

Police were called to a home in the 10200 block of Roppelt Road on Saturday morning on a report of a man firing an AR-15 outside a house. When officers arrived, the man got into a white 2005 pickup truck with a woman inside and drove away, police said.

Investigators said officers were uncertain whether the woman had been forced inside the pickup. Police identified the suspect as 20-year-old Ryan Stark.

Police then located the pickup on Strubel Road and began chasing it, authorities said. Stark went east on Pippen Road to John Grey Road, and officers said he began tossing the rifle's ammunition magazines out the window. Stark stopped at one point during the pursuit to let his girlfriend out of the truck.

“During the pursuit he threw several AR-15 magazines out of his window and actually threw out the rifle during the pursuit as well,” Sgt. Joe Redmond of the Colerain Township police said.

Stark went east to Mill Road and then south to Kemper Road. He then turned west to Stone Mill Road, where officers stopped him at gunpoint around 11:54 a.m., and Stark was arrested.

“He pulled off the side of the road and surrendered without incident,” Redmond said.

Officers were at Northwest High School doing active shooter training when they received the call about the incident.

Almost a dozen people called 911 to report the shooting and chase.

“There’s an individual in the street screaming and shooting a gun off into the air,” one caller said.

Stark’s mother even called 911 twice during the incident.

“I called in about 20 minutes ago because my son was out here fighting with his girlfriend screaming and yelling and jumping up and down. He started shooting a gun in the air and no one’s here yet and now he's gone,” Stark’s mother said.